CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Shishov, Aleksandr |
|---|---|
| Title | Identifying the Heideggerian Footprint in Post-Communist Russia's Radical Political Thought: the Case of Aleksandr Dugin |
| Summary | At present, despite significant interest in Russian politics and its benchmark status for claims regarding the rise of illiberal tendencies, very little is done to investigate the developments within Russia’s eclectic philosophical landscape. This paper examines the political theory of one the most controversial and curious Russian intellectuals - Aleksandr Dugin. In his key work “The Fourth Political Theory” Dugin dismisses liberalism, communism and fascism and proposes an approach to political philosophy that, according to his argumentation, fosters an authentic relationship with Being by conceptualising Heidegger’s category of Dasein as the subject of politics. This paper suggests that Dugin’s theory constitutes a genuine and unique example of Right-Heideggerianism and expands on the ideas of conservative revolutionaries through incorporating the major theoretical developments of the 20th century. It is demonstrated that identifying the key premise of Dugin’s approach to political philosophy as the insistence on the ontological primacy of community in relation to the construction of the human self, envisioned in Heideggerian terms, allows for Dugin’s political application of Heidegger’s fundamental ontology to be both sufficiently distinct from present currents in political thought, and flexible to be appropriated as a new conceptual foundation by a wide array of radical conservative and right-wing movements. |
| Supervisor | Kis, Janos; Weberman, David |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/shishov_aleksandr.pdf |
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